An interesting idea is presented on “for a beautiful web” regarding how best to deal with IE6 and its many failings. Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS proposes that IE6 always gets sent a standard look and feel, so that the experience for its users is not bad – just not the full shebang. It’s clear [...]
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Beta 3 is out and the new OS fixes the non-working Youtube from the previous beta. [Update: and also breaks syncing, which now hangs on "Syncing contacts..."] [Update2: Seems like the contacts syncing hang was a temporary issue...]
We might as well start this series off at the bottom and work our way up. So, let’s start with PHP – it’s not the base of our stack, but it’s the first element that heavily requires some coding standards in place. As I said in the intro, this series will be about how I do [...]
I’ve decided to write an occasional series of articles on coding and development standards. It will be how I see them – the standards I myself follow – so it might not be for everyone. What it will be is a guide to what to expect if I’m working for you, and what to expect [...]
I just got a new drive for my MacBook (MacBook2,1 – black) and am quite pleased with the simplicity of the process. First up, I didn’t need to add a jumper to throttle the SATA II drive down to SATA I speed. I put it in, it was recognised OK. The drive is a Seagate [...]
I’m in the middle of the first phase of building a new webapp and like most web developers (I would bet) when I show someone what I’ve done, it’s not apparent what marvels of engineering I’ve pulled off! So, in order to actually give a quick run-down of where we’re at with the application, I [...]
As the first example of my Tienda.co.uk project, we’ve just launched slant1996.com which sells slightly mad t-shirt designs!
I recently helped out updating a friend’s online shop: Nunoya in Barcelona. As well as the obvious stock of kimono and other clothing items, they have some cool accessories. But my favourites are the Kokeshi, which I don’t remember having seen before – slightly mad (in a good way) dolls that look a bit like [...]
This is probably an oldie-but-goodie to a lot of web devs, but as search indexing bots don’t always send HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE to the server with the request, it will cause an error if you depend on its presence, which can and will be reflected in the search results, even though not in “any” browser.
Lovely redesign of jquery.com.
I’ve just been trying Mailplane which is a nice OS X desktop app for Gmail. Drag and drop to attach a file? Check! Automatically take and send screenshots? Check! Send pics from iPhoto? Check! Optionally optimise photo attachments? Check! Growl integration? Check! The screengrabbing and sending in one swift move is very nice, if you end up doing that sort of [...]
It would be unbelievable if it wasn’t something I’ve almost come to expect here: Movistar’s iPhone page only works in IE.
Nice watches on ebay at Poljot Watches, and if you’re a penguin-bothering type of geek, especially this one, with 24-hour dial and penguins!
Photo by Csaba_Bajko I’m not too bad with timetracking these days. I use Billable for invoicing and as long as I keep a vague eye on the time, and add the hours into Billable as they’re spent it’s not too much of a bind. Recently, though, I’ve started using a solution that seems obvious, but I’ve never [...]